00815nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001260001600042653002400058100001400082245003200096300000900128490000700137520051100144022001400655       2021                            d  bElsevier BV10aInfectious Diseases1 aBagcchi S00aFacing leprosy in the 1920s  a13640 v213 aDespite being a fictional work, in her book The Second Life of Mirielle West Amanda Skenandore has used her medical background as a registered nurse—and her storytelling skills as a writer—to describe the sorrows experienced by patients with leprosy who were quarantined at the Carville Leper Home, a hospital in Louisiana that used to provide quarantine and treatment services for leprosy in the USA throughout the 20th century. Currently the site has turned into the National Hansen's Disease Museum.  a1473-3099